Karl Liebknecht
Karl Liebknecht (13 August 1871, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany – 15 January 1919, Berlin, Germany) was a German socialist and a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany. He is best known for his opposition to World War I in the Reichstag and his role in the Spartacist uprising of 1919. The uprising was crushed by the social democrat government and the Freikorps (paramilitary units formed of World War I veterans). Liebknecht and Luxemburg were murdered.
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... utterances forwarded the break-up with the left-wing Social Democrats led by Karl Liebknecht, leading to the establishment of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) in 1917 ... especially the release of his convicted former party fellow Karl Liebknecht ... expectation of a similar proclamation of a "Workers' Republic" by the communists led by Karl Liebknecht, which indeed followed a couple hours later ...
... Sophie Liebknecht (1884 - 1964) was a Russian-born German socialist and feminist ... She was the second wife of Karl Liebknecht, who had three children from his first marriage to Julia Liebknecht ... married the Marxist thinker and soon-to-be revolutionary leader Karl Liebknecht in 1912 ...
... Liebknecht was released again in October 1918, when Max von Baden granted an amnesty to all political prisoners, on his return to Berlin on 23 October ... Following the outbreak of the German Revolution, Liebknecht carried on his activities in the Spartacist League he resumed leadership of the group ... On 9 November, Liebknecht declared the formation of a Freie Sozialistische Republik (Free Socialist Republic) from a balcony of the Berliner Stadtschloss, two hours after Philipp Scheidemann's declaration ...
... One day later Karl Liebknecht, who had also been freed from prison, proclaimed the Freie Sozialistische Republik (Free Socialist Republic) in Berlin ... of Germany (KPD) under the leadership of Karl Liebknecht and Luxemburg on 1 January 1919 ... Unlike Liebknecht, Luxemburg rejected this violent attempt to seize power ...
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“At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.”
—Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919)